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Minutes for July 2018 ‘Working together to improve our village’ Chairman: Nita Pearson 20 Springfield, Thringstone, Leicestershire, LE67 8LT. Telephone: 01530 223434 mail to: [email protected] Visit our website at: www.friends-of-thringstone.org.uk Twitter address: @Thringstone2 MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 5 JULY 2018 AT CHARLES BOOTH CENTRE Present: Nita Pearson, John Brindley, Ray Woodward, Bernard Lee, Mike Statham, Gillian Bates, Maureen Simm, Pat Hubbard, Ron Hill, Dave and Julie Everitt, Anita Jones Apologies: Geoff and Jane Wilson, Shirley Gordon, Bill Enser, Anne Statham, Pat Darby, Janet Stevenson, Ann Petty, Nigel and Mary Roberts Discussions/Decisions. Council’s Green Shoot Grant – We put in for the bulbs discussed at the last meeting and are waiting to hear whether we are successful. Music Festival at centre 4 August – We will be having a stall at this event to try to get new members and sell publications. Does anybody wish to help with this please? We will have to put the gazebo up, then it all starts at 1pm. Set up is before 11am, and take down at 5pm. At the moment it is Ann running this, as Nita is marshalling the event. Maureen said she could potentially help. The centre is doing a wine or what stall and need wine for this. Dave and Julie Everitt brought 5 bottles of wine along. If anybody else would like to donate some wine for this stall, please contact the centre direct. Maureen said she would donate some wine. Bellway road names – Amongst the names used for roads was the name Rennocks. Two of the children of Frederick William Lawrence Rennocks came to the opening last year. He was born on 23 July 1887 and died in June 1963, and was the only one of the 4 men honoured who survived the war. He won a military medal. We have been told that John Rennocks, one of these children, died in May. His relatives are forever grateful that he got the chance to come to the opening to honour his father’s name. Monthly litter pick total – 161 bags against 164 for the same month last year. The council has removed the litter bin on Main Street by the Fortnam Close estate due to it being misused and people putting household and DIY waste both in it and around it. At this moment in time they will not be replacing the bin. They said if you (Nita) ‘ would like to leave your litter picked bags in a place where they can be collected NWLDC will arrange that on a Tuesday and Friday they are collected for you.’ Nita has replied that isn’t the point, and why can’t we have a larger bin. People are now leaving items such as settee cushions by the bin outside the hairdressers and also in the bin at the top of the church jetty, and mattress springs by the bin outside Thringstone Members’ Club. Dave Everitt has also challenged the council’s decision and is meeting with them tomorrow to discuss resiting the bin elsewhere. Memorial Project – We continue to work on this, and had a meeting with the consultants for the project with a view to tying their exhibition in with our event on 10 November. We hope we have been successful in this respect. 1 Hello Heritage event – 15 September from 12noon until 5pm at the centre. We have asked David White to do a slide show after the event from 5.30pm until 8pm, and hope this will be successful. We need people to agree to do some baking for this event………… A huge thank you goes to Ron Goacher for letting Nita borrow his Coalville Times archive folders this last month. Ron has copies of anything which mentions Thringstone from the inception of the paper through to 1979. Nita has scanned a lot of stuff, taken many many notes and increased the size of our archives as a result. Marking the end of WW1 – 10 November. So far involved in this with FoT are Royal British Legion, WI, Whitwick Historical Group, the art group, Tigers WW1 website, and Leicestershire VCHT. The scouts have also expressed an interest. As mentioned previously, there will be a concert and dance at the end of the evening provided by Foresters Band. This is a totally free event. Maureen said she would like to be kept informed of this, but hoped that the RBL secretary would contact us to make arrangements. Mike said that there is still a banner in the centre for the 1914-18 event we did 4 years ago. This might be useful to be used again. Grass Verge Booth Road – the grass verge on Booth Road has been missed a second time by the county council grass cutters because it isn’t on their map as requiring cutting. This was reported as a complaint to county hall. An email reply was received stating that they were still uncertain as to whose responsibility it was to cut the grass and would reply when they had investigated further. Centre news – Holly Kerley left as business development manager on 28 June. Some interviews have already taken place to find a replacement with others happening shortly. In the meantime, May Chadwick has had her hours extended to provide cover in the office. Mike said that the calibre of applicant was good, but they were not yet sure when the new person would start. It was mentioned that it might be an idea to have another open evening at the end of the year at which the new person could be introduced. John Brindley asked about the cancelling of the recent comedy night. It was explained this was unfortunate, but would be rescheduled for 21 September, and all the necessary information on the cancellation had been passed round to media and social media about the cancellation. He said it had not reached Lbro Echo. Chairs Report Letters received: Emails received: Various from people with whom we regularly share information. Emails sent: Various to groups and individuals as usual. Promotion: We have 528 twitter followers, which is 6 more than last month, and 615 facebook followers, which is 8 more than last month. We are continuing to post details of local events, public notices and also historical photos on both sites, and Nita is also posting stuff on the Coalville History facebook site. Nita has also posted details of our forthcoming history events to the What’s Around website and sent details to Community Voice and Ashby Life and posted on NWLDC’s What’s On, as well as facebook and twitter . A press release sent with 2 photographs to the Coalville Times relating to the litter pick with Consortio Security was printed on 15 June. Photographs of this event have also gone to our webmaster and been posted on our Litter Action UK pages. Other: Nita attended the Community Roadshow event at Coalvlle Library to help promote the group. Ann, Janet and Nita manned a stall for the group in the Miners Gala tent at Picnic in the Parks. Three people said they have historical information to share with us and we are now waiting for this to come through. Photos were taken and have been sent to our webmaster. We have two new members – John and Trish Brindley. Welcome to them. 2 Finance Report Gen Fund held 1st of month (bank + petty cash + float) £2,899.15 Income Expenditure Memberships £10.50 Broadband 10.50 Raffle 11.00 Death certificate £6.00 publications £36.50 Donations £3 total income to general fund £61 £16.50 Total general fund at month end £2,943.65 Publications Report The following publications were sold at the Miners Gala/Picnic in the Parks – 1 x Thringstone and its people, 1 each of memories 2, 3 and 4, 1 x World Ward 2, 1 each of Born and Bred 1 and 2, 2 Scottish in Thringstone and 1 Durham Miners. This totalled £30.50. A man called David Amos, who is a research assistant in Coal and Dialect at Nottingham Trent University, was very interested in our Scottish and Durham books, bought both, and then scanned the front covers and put them on his twitter page with the following comment ‘Picked up these two interesting booklets at the Coalville Picnic in the Park/Miners Gala event at the weekend - Memories of North-East and Scottish miners who migrated south in the 1960's to work in the pits around Coalville, Leics. These are a cracking two booklets. More projects should be done like this to show how and why people move for economic reasons.’ Nita subsequent to the event sold a pubs book to a lady with family connections to pubs in the village. Web Report – minutes for June are yet to go on site, together with photos of the centre’s launch and our stand, plus photos taken of the litter pick with Consortio Security and the Miners’ Gala. Police Report We sent details of the following to the police: A family on Melrose Road had their children’s trampoline stolen on 18 June. They posted photos of the CCTV footage taken of the people responsible on facebook. Nita and a colleague from Neighbourhood Watch should have had a meeting/crime preven- tion launch at Thringstone Co-op last week with police representatives, but it was cancelled at 10.30am on the day of the 12pm meeting by Karl Hall, the loss prevention advisor for Central England Co-op, because apparently someone from the police was unable to attend. We understand that in early June, just prior to closing, someone went into the Co-op and stole meat.
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